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Quotes About Wisdom

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.
~ Philip Johnson
No lie ever reaches old age.
~ Sophocles
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
~ Vivek Wadhwa
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
~ Cherie Lunghi
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.
~ Jean Paul
The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.
~ Mason Cooley
There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.
~ Ben Hecht
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.
~ George Eliot
I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.
~ Julianne Hough
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
~ Mason Cooley
Professionally, I have no age.
~ Kathleen Turner
I think it's quite lucky that I lead this lifestyle, and in fact, my career's only gotten better as I've looked older, because it ages you, the uncertainty.
~ Olivia Williams
As you age, feelings do diminish.
~ Bette Midler
Robert De Niro is just evolved as a human being. He's a very kind guy. Age has been good for him, in terms of just, he's very kind.
~ Diane Keaton
You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.
~ Bob Hope
I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.
~ Cameron Diaz
A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.
~ Mary Kay Ash
I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.
~ Diane Ackerman
Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what's going on
~ Cecelia Ahern
The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.
~ Doris Lessing
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.
~ Euripides
I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.
~ Frank Lampard